Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause?

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On Saturday, August 16, 2014 12:33:50 PM UTC-7, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 8/15/2014 8:28 AM, jsquirek@gmail.com wrote:
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> > My suggestion is to stick with tutorials that use SDL as this tends
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> >to be the most professionally used, regularly updated, and widely
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> >supported cross-platform library (in fact Valve officially uses it
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> >for all of its linux development work).
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> >
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> Yes, it is a good idea to use SDL. But one still needs to call
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> openGL from SDL to do any any 3D graphics and any advanced graphics
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> really. SDL provides basic framework (windows, sounds, threads...)
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> So if one is using Ada, one still needs a binding for calling openGL
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> from inside SDL (also Ada SDL binding is needed ofcourse).
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> --Nasser

 
I was looking at SDL and Delphi/Object Pascal for a bit, and decided to do some looking around and had actually found an Ada-SDL binding...http://sourceforge.net/projects/adasdl/

I haven't tried it out yet, but I will at some point. Supposedly, it's portable and work-out-of-the-box.

As far as Linux/Unix...it is what it is. It would be nice to know how many people out there that use linux/unix for ada programming...